Poems of Pilgrimage
Thomas Hardy
Read by Alan Mapstone
A short collection of poems by Thomas Hardy describing his feelings when visiting various places of historic interest in Italy and Switzerland.
The first poem is a tribute to Queen Victoria written in the week of her death. (Summary by Alan Mapstone) (0 hr 22 min)
Chapters
V. R. 1819-1901 A Reverie | 1:43 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Genoa and the Mediterranean | 1:58 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Shelley's Skylark | 1:51 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
In the Old Theatre, Fiesole | 1:27 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Rome: On the Palatine | 1:25 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Square | 1:27 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Rome: The Vatican-Sala Delle Muse | 2:18 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats | 1:45 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden: 11-12 P.M. | 1:49 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Zermatt: To the Matterhorn | 1:26 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Bridge of Lodi | 3:46 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
On an Invitation to the United States | 1:26 | Read by Alan Mapstone |